In Vienna

In Vienna, most conservative of European capitals, there took place, last week, a day of musical uproar, scandal, disorder past all precedent.

At a concert in the afternoon, the Philharmonic Orchestra played, for the first time in the city, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps. As the famed cacophonies, whipped by the baton of Conductor Franz Schalk, writhed in air, certain staid Viennese, fearing that they were being begammoned, began to shout, hiss, whistle, yell. Conductor Schalk whipped on to the end.

At the State Opera House, in the evening, Erich Korngold, composer, stood up to conduct his opera, Violanta. Composer Korngold and his father, Critic Julius Korngold, have been denounced as leaders of the cabal that drove Richard Strauss from Vienna. As Young Korngold led his opening bars, the staid Viennese once more rose in their chairs to shout, hiss. "Away with Korngold," they cried. "Bring back Strauss." Ladies and gentlemen stood up in their boxes. Hoodlums shouted terrible words. The police made arrests.